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Luke 19:1 He entered and was passing through Jericho.
19:2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.
19:4 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. 19:5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." 19:6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. 19:7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner." 19:8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much." 19:9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."

Nothing Jesus did was not Holy Spirit lead, when Christ spoke or preached the Holy Spirit made the appointment not man. Today many preach with fleshly efforts thinking such preachings is from God because they use their bibles. But when Holy Spirit is not involved the works is but man's work and not the workings of God.

John 1:33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Each Christian must understand, those coming to Christ were there because the Holy Spirit was working through Christ at God's direction through His holy angels bring the people to hear the words of Holy Spirit being spoken by Christ. Moreover, this is why none other on earth spoke like Christ what they heard was from God YHWH from above, not below, like the same old parroted message repeat over and over again advertisements uses to make slogan stick in a person head.

John 3:34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Nothing happened in Christ life by chance, he was given a ministry, which meant it was directed from above, exactly where the Holy Spirit lead him to be, those drawn to Christ were there because the Holy Spirit brought them into Christ present by divine appointment. This is the only Good News that glorifies God, because it is being done from heaven, from God kindness unseen by fleshly eyes requiring an act of faith to be revealed from above. The truth must be revealed from heaven, not from man efforts, it must be under one King, as he searches the hearts of men, he is the one hearing the secret prayers of each person seeking him. He is the one in command of sending his angel here and there.

John 16:13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Corinthians 2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Colossians 3:1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

When human preach by personality, by some personal talent they are of the world, the world can draw millions into a entertainment, but the Holy Spirit is not a clown act, or a media entertainment. God needs no light show, he needs no angel to come down to impress mankind in the flesh by sight. What God uses is the Son of God, in the secret person of the heart, to make divine appointments that are not based upon flesh, but upon Spirit and truth unseen by the eyes of this world.

John 3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Luke 10:21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."

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